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Terrorism suspect Awso Peshdary will remain in custody and has been ordered not to communicate with 14 people, including others recently charged by the RCMP with terrorism-related offences and potential witnesses in the case against him.

Peshdary, 25, made his first court appearance Wednesday after the RCMP arrested him a day earlier, along with two others, as part of an investigation into homegrown terrorism activity.

He's charged with conspiring with alleged terrorists Khadar Khalib and John Maguire, participating in terrorism and facilitating terrorist activity.

He wore a black hooded parka and sat quietly during the 20-minute hearing. He said nothing, but fixed his gaze on his lawyer and nodded occasionally.

Peshdary's parents, wife and sister sat stone-faced in the courtroom. They declined to answer reporters' questions.

"I'm so sorry. I don't have no comment," his father Swara Peshdary said, pushing through a crowd of journalists covering the latest appearance of an alleged homegrown terrorist.

Peshdary is "doing as well as can be expected," his lawyer Richard Morris told reporters.

"He's concerned about the charges he's facing. He'd like to know exactly what they are," said Morris.

Peshdary was the only one of the three suspects arrested Tuesday able to appear in court. The other two -- Khalib, 23, and Maguire, 24, are believed to be in Syria, and were charged in absentia.

Maguire gained notoriety in August when media reported the all-Canadian boy -- a convert to Islam -- took a one-way ticket to Syria to fight for ISIS, according to RCMP. In December, he posted a video urging other young Muslims in Canada to attack Canadian targets because of the country's participation in air strikes against ISIS in Syria.

﻿In the video, he does not appear to be under duress, but there is no way to know if he made the statement of his own free will.

In January, an ISIS sympathizer tweeted Maguire had been killed in combat, though Tuesday's charges suggest the RCMP doubt that report.

Police allege Peshdary financed the travel of recruits from Canada to Syria to join the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq terrorist group.

A court order bans Peshdary from communicating with the other five alleged homegrown terrorists, witnesses who will be called, and some members of the Algonquin Muslim students association.

Federal Crown prosecutor Roderick Sonley said he was worried about "intimidation" of witnesses who might be called later.

"Mr. Peshdary was in frequent contact with Ashton Larmond," Sonley said, referring to one of the twin brothers charged in January with participating in the activities of a terrorist activity. The order bars Peshdary from communicating with Ashton and Carlos Larmond, Suliman Mohamed and John Maguire.

Abdullah Milton and Christopher Maguire were on the list because they will be called as Crown witnesses.

Peshdary's lawyer Richard Morris complained about the lack of disclosure from the federal Crown's office. Disclosure is the paperwork prepared in connection with an arrest and is usually given to defence lawyers so they understand the case against their clients.